You boys must learn to think for yourselves instead of just obeying orders.

你们这些孩子应学会自己思考问题，而不只是惟命是从。

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This is opposed to obeying orders from a center, or reacting in lock step to the overall environment.

这与服从来自中心的命令，或根据整体环境做出步调一致的反应截然不同。

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The Doctor did everything they told him to do; he had been used to obeying orders for so many years.

医生完全照着他们的要求行事，这么多年来他已经习惯了服从命令。

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You could imagine the dualist coming back and saying, "Look, in the case of the heat-seeking missile or the robot for that matter, although it's doing things, it's just obeying orders.

你可以假想二元论反驳说,在热追踪导弹,或是机器人的例子里,尽管他们各尽其职,但也只是恪守命令

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But perhaps more important: Sadr took his followers to task for not obeying orders.

NPR: American Raid Follows Sadr's Return to Public Eye

U.S. District Judge Lyle Strom, who apologized during the resentencing, was obeying orders from a higher court.

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Mr Bascomb's understandable distaste for his subject does not prevent him giving a good flavour of Eichmann's slippery arguments once he went on trial: sometimes denying that he did anything wrong, sometimes saying he was only obeying orders, sometimes pleading other extenuating circumstances.

ECONOMIST: Adolf Eichmann